Scottish Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion (Edinburgh Companions to the Gothic)

Interrogates the Gothic in relation to Scotland, 'Scottishness', British Gothic, cultural and national boundaries, and issues of identityWritten from various critical standpoints by internationally renowned scholars, Scottish Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion interrogates the ways in which the concepts of the Gothic and Scotland have intersected and been manipulated from the mid-eighteenth century to the present day. This interdisciplinary collection is the first ever published study to investigate the multifarious strands of Gothic in Scottish fiction, poetry, theatre and film. Its contributors -- all specialists in their fields -- combine an attention to socio-historical and cultural contexts with a rigorous close reading of works, both classic and lesser known, produced between the eighteenth and twenty-first centuries.Key Features Offers the first critical collection devoted to the topic of the Scottish Gothic as it is manifested across centuriesRe-ignites ongoing debates about the relationship between Scotland and the Gothic, Scotland and Romanticism, Scotland and the Enlightenment, and the role of the Gothic in relation to national identity issuesConsiders issues of religion, politics, history, and culture/cultural identity in Scottish Gothic texts across centuries against the backdrop of the Act of Union and the process of devolution/independencePresents fresh readings of established, overlooked, and recent Scottish Gothic works across a variety of cultural and literary forms Scottish Gothic Copyright Contents Acknowledgements 1 Borderlands of Identity and the Aesthetics of Disjuncture: An introduction to Scottish Gothic 2 ‘The Celtic Century’ and the Genesis of Scottish Gothic 3 The Politics and Poetics of the ‘Scottish Gothic’ from Ossian to Otranto and Beyond 4 Robert Burns and the Scottish Bawdy Politic 5 Scottish Gothic Drama 6 Scottish Gothic Poetry 7 Calvinist and Covenanter Gothic 8 Gothic Scott 9 Gothic Hogg 10 ‘The Singular Wrought Out into the Strange and Mystical’: Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine and the Transformation of Terror 11 Gothic Stevenson 12 J. M. Barrie’s Gothic: Ghosts, Fairy Tales and Lost Children 13 The ‘nouveau frisson’: Muriel Spark’s Gothic Fiction 14 Scottish Gothic and the Moving Image: A Tale of Two Traditions 15 New Frankensteins; or, the Body Politic 16 Queer Scottish Gothic 17 Authorship, ‘Ghost-filled’ Islands and the Haunting Feminine: Contemporary Scottish Female Gothic Notes on Contributors Index Interrogates the Gothic in relation to Scotland, 'Scottishness', British Gothic, cultural and national boundaries, and issues of identity. Written from various critical standpoints by internationally renowned scholars, Scottish GothicAn Edinburgh Companion interrogates the ways in which the concepts of the Gothic and Scotland have intersected and been manipulated from the mid-eighteenth century to the present day. This interdisciplinary collection is the first ever published study to investigate the multifarious strands of Gothic in Scottish fiction, poetry, theatre and film. Its contributors - all specialists in their fields - combine an attention to socio-historical and cultural contexts with a rigorous close reading of works, both classic and lesser known, produced between the eighteenth and twenty-first centuries. --Amazon.com Written from various critical standpoints by international scholars, Scottish Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion interrogates the ways in which the concepts of the Gothic and Scotland have intersected and been manipulated from the mid eighteenth century to the present day. This interdisciplinary collection will be the first ever published study to investigate the multifarious strands of Gothic in Scottish fiction, poetry, theatre and film Written from various critical standpoints by internationally renowned scholars, this publication interrogates the ways in which the concepts of the Gothic and Scotland have intersected and been manipulated from the mid-eighteenth century to the present day